Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-16
Fourteenth Day of the Haddock Trial.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 7.-ContlnuatiJn
PAUL LEADER.
of testimony.

PAUL LEADER
Was proprietor of the Milwaukee house
last August. Was at the house till about
$40 Then went 10 New England bakery F.;
Was there tive or SIX minutes, probably, sad
then started for home, aud AT the Eugllsh
Kitchen iGet Mr., Hart. We went in and got
y glass of beer kuown Hart siuce June IA,
1856. Then tpoN charge Of the Milwaukee
house. Have known John Arcnsdorf since
about los4. Became acquainted with Munich
rath since my arrest. Dd not kuow
rrieber then: Knew Henry Peters; did not
know Path AT the time; tad on darS SUIT %
clothes anu straw hat. WITNESS was suown
"a hat found In Ryan's back yarul. Doesn't
look mucl like tie bat ] had; that is my HAT
am retty sure; after leaving The Eng ish
Kitchen Hart ana | went to the saloon; | got
IA G gar aud he q glass OF beer; stayed there
about ten mir utee; tteu went t. Junh's
saloon Hart was with me; Arensdorf, ScCi-
lard and Grady were in the front room; Leav-
lit was there with five or six others, standing
III a group; La t and | went into the back
room, remained u few minutes; Arensdorf
had on a navy blue III I; sack coat
with pants in his boots; W tuess " as shown
Il gray Derby hal that Is the hat LeaVltt
wore; be had on long rubber coat and ligh
pants; Leavitt and the crowd he was with
went out hastily; Hart and went out a few
seconds after; am aim, ST certain ArensdoTf
wa III tHf edIbOU With 1HTl anu 4 went OUT,
Leav.tt and his crowd went west OF Fourth
street; Hart and | followed about 100 feet be-
hind; didn't know where they were going #
what they were going TO 40; had no talk with
Leav!tt liz The saloon or anywhere else; when
we caught up with them 1t avitt and the rest
were standing by the high board fence on the
corner Of Fourth and Water streets; as we
walked past Leavitt jerked of this
straw hat = IL it is the same
and mt tho prav na,h on mu head.
| said: "What 30 you meant" Leavitt said:
"That's all right; I'll return it TO YOU In the
morning. We-Hart and walked on and
turned the corner and had gone sixty or sew
enty feet south on the east side OF Water
street, when / heard the report OF a gun--a
revolver. locked around. There were two
men standing In the street near the corner.
One was staggering aud the other was rum
ming away. The man who was running had
a long dark coat and light pants on. He had
also u lower wued hat. | think that man
was II. L.. Leavitt who did the shooting.
He ran north towards the blacksmith shop
Water street. We then wa KID on down
Water TO Third street, then east on Third
street to Nebraska street, and from
there on Nebraska street to the Mi
waukee house. 1t was probably 10:40
O'Clock when we got to the Milwaukee
house; Hart was with me when the shot was
fired. Bismarck was not with me. Didn't
see him that night. He was not with me AT
the corner or elsewhere that night. Did not
see John Arensdorf in that crowd with
Leavitt. Don think he was there. John
Areusdorf was not the man who fired the
hot. Am positive OF that. Know John
Arensdorf we'll. The coat the man had OF
was a rubber coat. Trims 1t was. Couldn't
tell exactly when / reached the Milwaukee
house. Know the Sioux City and Pacific
train had not got in at that time. The train
was due at $50 p. m. The hotel is about
80 feet from where the train stops. There
are no buildings bttwt en- the Milwaukee
house aud where the train stops.
Lcavitt never returned my hat. Hayr hcvt
Lesvitt's hat ever since. / identify tnss Aat
(the gray Derby hat) as the one L"arit' put
{ n my head thatnight as We passed t nc crowd
81 before the murder. Was at NJ secret
meeting of saloonkeepers on the night Of Au-
eu>t 2 last. Was not present at any meeting
of sdloonkcepers on that night. Believe there
~asa saioonkeepers' union at that time.
Well, the sslooDkerpers met several times In
Hoidenreid's hall, Attended only one of these